<p>Private schoolers just seem to be present en masse on this board (that’s inferred from posts about Ivy league acceptees, class size, counseling, that sort of thing), I’m just wondering how many of you went to ****ty public high schools like me.</p>
<p>Do you wish you could have gone to a private school as opposed to a public? Even though I’m not fond of my school, I can’t help but feel more “real,” like I’ve experienced more by being around people of all sorts of intelligences and socioecomonic statuses (though I hate most of them…). Not trying to offend you private kids, but don’t you ever feel sheltered or spoiled? (How many of you actually took SAT prep courses?)</p>
<p>I went to a public school in a relatively wealthy suburb so it was almost like going to a private school. It's a pretty sheltered school. People at my school are college obsessed and somewhat snobby. Sometimes I wish I had gone to a more "diverse" public school so I'd have a broader perspective on things, but I can't fault the quality of education I've received.</p>
<p>::raises hand:: public school all the way ... </p>
<p>although i complain about it a lot, one of the best things about going to a public school has got to be the diversity (hispanic, african american, indian, native american, just recently an increase in colombians and peruvians ... i think we've got just about every race ... do we all get along? not necessarily, but it's the thought that counts) ... i mean sure, we've got to deal with budget cuts and absolutely zero funding ... but i'm not sure i'd give it up for a private school ... i'd switch to a better public school, but not private. besides, i think public schools are more like the "real" world (if there is such a thing) anyway.</p>
<p>I love my public school! I used to want to go to private, but I realized that I would have missed out on a lot. Deer hunting tips, hay baling stories, parties in the middle of the woods, knowing people who literally shot themselves in the foot, knowing people who are actually inbred, catching crawfish, having kids in my school who work a full time job and still manage to make honor roll...w00t public schools!</p>
<p>The woods? Well...they're everywhere. I mean, unless you're actually in the town center, you can step off the road into the woods. Lots of pine trees, but a lot of maple too. Very pretty in the fall. We mostly party in the woods because it's out of the police's jurisdiction, so to get caught there would have to be state troopers. They're not incredibly dense, and there aren't like scary creatures that roam around, so it's fun.</p>
<p>Ah, the parties! I don't like them nearly as much as the ones in houses, but I was at a party a few months ago that got busted, so we're not so hot on in-town parties for now. In the woods, it's impossible to mix drinks, so it's restricted to like beer or liquor straight from a bottle. Not my favorite. But bonfires are fun, and the atmosphere is unbeatable.</p>
<p>Goddamn, I'd pay to go to a party like that. The parties here suck. It's people standing around a counter and drinking and then hooking up with each other and then driving and crashing into each other. There aren't any woods in which to have parties.</p>
<p>I go to a public school, but because it's in such an affluent area, it's practically private. It's very well-funded because the community always passes measures that give more funding to the schools through taxes. I think it's like the 2nd best public in Northern California.</p>
<p>I go to your typical (as in actually typical not cc typical) public. I love this show about this girl who got to go to this awesome private, and for a while I longed for that oppurtunity, but I have so many oppurtunities here. Sure, I would love to go to private school, but public schools offer some things private schools kids never see- not everyone has a 3.9+ gpa, not everyone takes ap classes, we're mostly middle class, but with definite individuals who are at the extrememes, we have jocks, preps, nerds, jocky preps, preppy jocks, goths, gothic nerds..etc. you get it. I just don't think private school kids get that diversity</p>
<p>I agree. Racial diversity is one thing, but I really think true diversity is more socioeconomic and background, which can be achieved by racial diversity, but not necessarily.</p>
<p>i have a friend who goes to a private catholic no better than my school- but it's so homogeneous, not so much academically, but in every other possible way. I think both racial and otherwise should be addressed. I go to a suburban school, and I'm one of very few blacks, but at the same time, my private school friends are surprised there's even 15 of us in my class of 450, because racial diversity is not even applicable there, as well as diversity of other types.</p>